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Article #440Re: Improving "file" (was Re: Making Solaris 2.1 smarter...)
From: Guy Harris
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:58
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:58
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>What happens if you have a field whose value you don't test at all, or >test with a test other than one for equality or inequality, and whose >value you later print? Actually, you can pile an additional hack on top of the "test both byte orders" hack for *some* of those cases - have "file", once it finds a match with one particular byte order, use the byte order for all subsequent extractions of numeric data from the file. It *is* a hack atop a hack, though, and doesn't handle the ELF case, wherein you find out the byte order of the file by checking a one-byte field....
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5 Subject: Re: Improving "file" (was Re: Making Solaris 2.1 smarter...) Message-ID: <16337@auspex-gw.auspex.com> Date: 11 Jan 93 21:58:12 GMT References: <16235@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <16320@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1993Jan10.143907.12860@ulysses.att.com> <16329@auspex-gw.auspex.com> Sender: news@auspex-gw.auspex.com Distribution: na Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 12 Nntp-Posting-Host: auspex.auspex.com